Liberating the literature

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meta-data

It’s been a successful launch of the new version of the site. We’ve had lots of sign-ups to the Premium version and that includes a number of institutions – so, so far so good. Fortunately, we’ve had no ill-feeling expressed around the move to Freemium, I imagine most users understand the reasons. We have had lots of feedback which has started a mini-development cycle. So, things that we’re planning on doing in the near future include:

Improved export meta-data. Currently we only include basic data such as title, publication and year. We’re now planning to extend that to include authors, volume, issue, page numbers and abstract.

OpenAthens. We’re still exploring this but it looks like it’s a route that we need to go down. The only hesitation is the cost!

Institutional pricing. Even though we planned it and spoke to a number of people I think the way we’ve packaged institutional subscriptions is overly complex and off-putting. So, we’re working hard to simplify this and we aim to roll out a new approach in the very near future.

If there are any other improvements you’d like to see, feel free to email me: jon.brassey@tripdatabase.com